William S. Burroughs

Response Paper 2 S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" uses a modernist approach to describe the views of a man living with self-doubt, lack of confidence and an inability to make sense of the modern world. Eliot uses descriptive images and society as the setting to give a clear visual picture of man living in his own hell due to his extremely low self esteem and the way he feel he is viewed by others. He cannot give or receive love because he goes through life with a…

T.S. Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock and Ernest Hemingway’s Jake Barnes struggle to find meaningful ways to live their lives. They stay on the sidelines, searching for a way to find happiness in an unforgiving modern world. While Jake Barnes does find some shred of success, J. Alfred Prufrock does not. J. Alfred Prufrock longs for happiness in his shallow life. He hopes that finding a woman to marry will provide him with a desirable, exuberant life. In Eliot's poem, Prufrock attends an upper-class…

They walked around slowly... I must have wandered around for hours; sometimes even out into the street, getting honked at and cussed out.(pg 150) S.E. Hinton writes the story of two groups of people the Greasers and the Socs in The Outsiders. Two groups of people who live on different sides of town and have very different lives. Ponyboy would walk around for hours all alone. Sometimes he didn’t feel like he was part of a group. Ponyboy was the youngest of the group, the Greasers. Everytime he…

I suppose Ms. Hinton meant that the Greasers were the outsiders. I deem plausible it that Greasers are perceived by the Socs and quite possibly by the Greasers themselves as Outsiders. Maybe She considered Ponyboy an Outsider. She might have Considered Ponyboy and Johnny Outsiders. The Greasers are not considered the “good” kids. Since the Greasers are protagonists according to the newspaper it is probable that they were outsiders to their own kind. The Greasers might be considered the…

This painting relates to The Outsiders by showing what the greasers feel like. The greasers have to go endure the fighting and being outlawed because they look like “hoods”.The greasers look like rough tides, swishing back and forth hopelessly because it seems as if they will never get to shine bright like the sun in the sky.This is evident on page 5, “Hey grease, one said in an over-friendly voice. We’re gonna do you a favor, greaser. We’re gonna cut all that long greasy hair off”. On the other…

C.S. Lewis is an extraordinary writer; his book series The Chronicles of Narnia is also a series of movies that are delightful for all ages. It could be said when comparing the two versions of The Chronicles of Narnia, the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe that the book is better because it lets the reader live the story instead of just watching it. The book is so much more detailed than the movie; for example, when the protagonist, Lucy, first enters Narnia, when Edmund goes to the witch's…

This paper is a review of The Killer Angels is a book by the author, Michael Shaara. The book is about the four days that Battle of Gettysburg took place while the Civil War had been going on. The story is placed during the time when soldiers prepared for battle around the town of Gettysburg and when the battle began to happen. Michael Shaara wrote the book to convey out the significance of Gettysburg. He explained the events that happened during the Gettysburg War. In the book, Michael Shaara…

The Truman doctrine supplied aid to the nations who refused to back down to armed invaders trying to inforce communism. Also it offered finical aid to those who did not give in to outside pressure. The Doctrine also backed those countries politically and it offered military support to those nations. Even if the Nations were engaged in civil war. Truman’s doctrine argued that the U.S. could not just stand by and watching while the Soviet Union took over former fellow democratic nations by force…

Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States. Truman was the Vice President under Franklin D. Roosevelt, when FDR died Truman became president in 1945. He was only FDR’s Vice President for a few months before he was elected. Truman’s first shining moment was when he had to meet with Joseph Stalin and Clement Attlee for the final wartime conference at Potsdam near Berlin. Originally, at the Yalta conference, the Soviets wanted to take reparations from Germany to…

What would you do, if you grew up in a city full of gangs and violence, with barely any parental supervision? S.E. Hinton explains how developing in this types of cities can enhance or destroy the relationships most important to yourself in The Outsiders, That Was Then This is Now and Rumble Fish. Hinton tests the effects of morality, loyalty and evaluation and how it affects what is valued most in ones life. S.E. Hinton clearly has a recurring theme of loyalty and morality between confused…